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mud.,. this heading vs ?totted such Books of Ms weak as haue not book -reserved for review in other fornts.] Reunion and lntercommunion. By H. Hensley Hanson, D.D. ,(Hugh Roes. Od. not.)—This utterance of Canon Heneon's is, we fear, but the vow clamantis in dosorto. But such voices havo before this heralded great world-changes, and what boa boon may be
• again. It is a fact, however, that the Anglican Church is more remote from any possibilities of reunion with other Christian bodies than it was sixty years ago. We talk much more about it, but there is no practicality about the talk. There is, of course, a groat inert mass which is really indifferent to doctrinal and -ecclesiastical questions, oven as there was in England- in the
• sixteenth century when the clergy accepted tho Edwardian, the Marian, and the Elizabethan revolutions without any serious secessions. But the real loaders are High Churchmen, thorough believers in the ius divinum of episcopacy. All the talk, therefore, .about reunion means nothing. Any proposals that are made are Practically of this kind: "Let us unite ; but you must accept our 'bisrins." Can anything be dono short of this reunion? It must be allowed that as a matter of fact the Anglican terms of coin- mullion are much easier than those of any other religious body.
Congregationalist or a Wesleyan may present himself at the Holy Table and be received without question. Thoro can bo no -doubt about the vigour and point of Canon Honson's polemic.
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